I understand that there are ways to skip that puzzle. One way is:
If you want to go ahead and solve it, you'll need a paper and pencil, as it's different every game.
×There are 5 rooms total: a red room, a yellow room, a green room, a blue room, and the room the pooka is in. Your goal is to put the red gem in the red room, the yellow gem in the yellow room, the green gem in the green room, and the blue gem in the blue room.
Each room has 5 doors, which can be unlocked using the items displayed by the pooka.
Bat wing unlocks night door.
Feather unlocks cloud door.
Mole tooth unlocks earth door.
Shark tooth unlocks water door.
Leaf unlocks green door.
Dragon scale unlocks fire door.
Draw the 5 rooms and their doors on your paper. Experiment, using different items from the pooka until you've been to all 5 rooms, and you know where each door goes. While doing this, you'll have to start over several times, but starting over does not change the puzzle. At this point, your paper will probably look like a spider web with all the interconnections between rooms.
At this point, you finally should be able to list the items needed to get in and out of each room, and select the two that will get you everywhere. If you can't see the answer, post your "
spider web map"
with all the rooms and doors labeled, and someone here can tell you which two items to choose.
Every time I've done this puzzle, I've always gone through one of the two middle doors in the pooka's room. I've used the same item to unlock the next door. And I've used a different item (that didn't work on any of the doors in the pooka's room) to get through the next two doors. Puzzle solved.